Vicente Ximenes, LBJ's Great Society, and Mexican American civil rights rhetoric / Michelle Hall Kells ; foreword by Juan C. Guerra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kells, Michelle Hall, author.

Contributor:

Guerra, Juan C., writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ximenes, Vicente, 1919-2014--Oratory.

Ximenes, Vicente.

Ximenes, Vicente, 1919-2014--Influence.

Mexican Americans--Politics and government--20th century.

Mexican Americans.

Chicano movement--History--20th century.

Chicano movement.

Mexican Americans--Biography.

Political activists--United States--Biography.

Political activists.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (324 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Carbondale, [Illinois] : Southern Illinois University Press, 2018.

Summary:

Beginning as a grassroots organizer in the 1950s, Vicente Ximenes was at the forefront of the movement for Mexican American civil rights through three presidential administrations, joining Lyndon B.Johnson's Great Society and later emerging as one of the highest-ranking appointees in Johnson's administration.

Contents:

Introduction: the cultural rhetorical ecology of the Mexican American civil rights movement

"Chente": interrogating histories, negotiating rhetorics

New Mexico and the political imagination of the American GI Forum

The public rhetoric of Vicente Ximenes: citizen scholars and Mexican American civil rights activism

Latinidad: the question of democracy and the Americas

Constructing the "Great Society": the Topoi of the 1967 El Paso Hearings

Public memory and the reconstruction of history: the 1972 Civil Rights Symposium

Conclusion: Vicente Ximenes' engaging public rhetoric, cultural ecologies, and civic literacies in the twenty-first century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

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ISBN:

0-8093-3640-5

OCLC:

1018944857